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The Making of the Crofting Community
Language: en
Pages: 542
Authors: James Hunter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-17 - Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

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This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord – injustice
Land, Faith and the Crofting Community
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Allan W. MacColl
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-20 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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This book probes the deep-rooted links between the land, the people and the religious culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the nineteenth century. T
Reimagining Culture
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Sharon Macdonald
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-15 - Publisher: Routledge

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Since the 1960s, policies to 'revive' minority cultures and languages have flourished. But what does it mean to have a 'cultural identity'? And are minorities a
A Croft in the Hills
Language: en
Pages: 191
Authors: Katharine Stewart
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-08 - Publisher: Birlinn

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A Croft in the Hills, first published in 1960, is now acknowledged as a classic among Highland books. It captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was r
Pabay
Language: en
Pages: 427
Authors: Christopher Whatley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-18 - Publisher: Birlinn

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“An island history almost without comparison . . . one of the finest Highland books of the 21st century” from the renowned Scottish historian (West Highland